06-07-2024, 01:48 AM
(06-07-2024, 01:10 AM)l0st Wrote: Depression. Yes, I agree it is often described as related to suicide but I feel that's more of a symptom of the larger problem.
I have come to realize there are a lot of larger problems which are not addressed when it comes to depression. Foremost is the use of the word in media. Mostly, they parrot the simplistic explanations that their sources resort to when describing something that needs more than a tabloid's perspectives.
I believe that one does not "get" depressed. It is not the cumulation of stresses and sorrows... those are only incidental to the depressed state. In many ways, it is what depressed people must cling to as they are pressed over and over "to explain what's wrong" (even to themselves.) In that state, you often "pick something, anything" to focus your angst and attention on... And suddenly your depression can "be explained away" as relating to a circumstance (most of which can have a describable point of solution.) And many depressed people become dismayed when they "solution" is offered (and even carried out) and they find no consolation or diminishing of their grief. Depression comes from inside you.
I didn't want to foray into my utter dissatisfaction about the entire "prescribe SSRIs and it's fixed" attitude of physicians. I have lost respect for the many doctors who simply prescribe what they do because of the "little pharmaceutical booklet" and what it says. Especially when they know they can't explain it, how it works, or what exactly is the problem... and by that I mean more than "concepts" about brain physiology that only have meaning "in theory."
There may be some real points of concern in your observation regarding generational mental health. But then, there are salient social considerations as well... but that might be another matter entirely.
